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Old home week!
And Prestige can be warned, since she’s clearly on the list! Wonderful start!
What? Warn PRESTI? Why – Grinner said NOTHING ABOUT WHO HIRED HIM or WHY he was doing the vengeful things.
If anything, due to the fact that it’s Grinner, Rusty might be more likely to war *Roxy*, since she bested Grinner, and thus would be the obvious conclusion for a nemesis.
…but then, we found out, didn’t we? >:)
We saw at the end of chapter 6 that the Tenticalli hired Grinner to get revenge on the ones who foiled them (Presti and the “main party”).
Yes but they don’t know that, do they? All they know is that they were attacked by Grinner. They have no idea that Presti is connected to this at all, she’s never even met him before.
Wow, that’s a funky looking barbarian.
no, she said barbs and hooks, and that clearly counts as a hook (thought we don´t know if rusty´s a barb)
Rusty probably ate the hooks and barbs, knowing him.
I would have missed that unless you mentioned it. I second wishing that we could like coments.
I wish I could like your comment that you second wishing that we could like comments.
Hmmm, if his class were barbarian, then it would be “Rusty Barb Hook”
I come from the future. You can now like comments! (Assuming this doesn’t change again later.)
You know it’s a Guild Bar when there are 3 locks on the front door…
If I could like your comment….
Only three?
That’s just locks on the outside.
I’m pretty sure only one of those is a lock. The other two are just metal bands to hold the door together.
I thought the same thing at first, too. Look underneath the door handle on the 2nd panel, there are 3 key holes.
Does this put all of the team’s companions, minus the princess, in one room at the same time? This could be one epic chapter.
Yup.
and it will probably involve Roxy casting that spell at a dramatic moment.
I’m not sure. Prestige can take the spell to the face with just minor discomfort, and she’s of a flimsy class. I think we’ve merely been showed that Roxy can use spells now (since she didn’t during level 3).
Yeah, but did you see her running and taking hits back in Chapter 5? She clearly made Constitution a high priority.
I didn’t say it would do anything useful. Just that it would be cast.
Something to look forward to!
It blew the door off the Proverbial Hook, that’s pretty significant. My guess is Prestige either had a protection spell up, a sensible precaution when teaching a noob, or wasn’t in the direct line of fire.
Clearly, the door is still on by panel 6. It just bulged a bit as recoil to the spell.
I stand corrected =) still that is impressive.
Given the look on proxy’s face, and the fact that she’s the one teaching the spell, chances are it’s probably a dazzle spell of some kind.
*Presti*
I looked back at my own comment and said “Who’s Proxy?”
I was thinking Color Spray, except that it’s not on the bard spell list. Flare, however, is: a cantrip creating a burst of light that dazzles a single target if cast directly in front of them. Only problem is that it has no somatic component, but I think we can chalk that up to artistic license.
I think it’s shout. If you look at panel two, her dialogue is big and bold, with some wave looking things. It wouldn’t cause Presti much physical harm, visibly at least, and I think it fits a bard pretty well.
I think it’s ‘cup your hands around your mouth to yell louder’, based on the description, results, and position of Roxy’s hands.
Things are looking grim indeed, when Rusty starts a sentence with something other than “Eat”
Of course, there are three dots before it so maybe…
This is going to be one epic party. Lots of classes and abilities to mess up the baddies… and get the princess involved and baddies are going to run for their lives.
Side note: has Rusty ever been attacked by an Iron or other metal golem aside from that animated Statue back in level 1??? I kind of want to see if a metal golem is smart enough to run for its unlife when faced with a rust monster.
He has nightmares where he is being attached by a stainless steel golem.
attacked, not attached
Rust monsters can corrode gold. I don’t think a little chromium will bother him.
Curse you and your reasonable and constant once a week update!
Wants more story now!
Also: hope Maddie’s alright =/
You know after draging her all this way, bleeding, unconcious, and whith nearly no hit points left, shouldn’t she be dead or is it just my unreasonable logistics side poping up again, because I hace a problem with that.
Being dragged at the relatively slow pace of a rust monster walking carefully with a heavy burden would probably only cause a fraction of a hit point of damage at any time, but since there is no such thing as a fraction of a hit point (from what I can recall), anything that causes less than a full hit point of damage at once, causes no damage at all! In our universe, there’s “death by 1000 cuts”, but in a hit point universe, so long as none of the cuts are enough to cause a full hit point of damage in any given round, you should receive no harm at all from a million cuts (nor from being slowly dragged)
Just like you can be fully ambulatory right up to zero HP.
Exactly. Or the fact that, so long as the weapon’s maximum damage doesn’t exceed your hit points, it is impossible for a single weapon strike to kill you, even if you are stabbed directly through the heart with a sword, or an arrow penetrates your brain! I wish our universe had hit points.
Or alternatively, if the damage isn’t enough to kill you, then it wasn’t a hit to the heart or CNS. Which makes more sense?
I assume she managed to stabilise in time.. leaving her unconscious, but in no immediate danger of bleeding to death.
Roxy’s here too?! This just may see all the companions uniting after all!
There are all the 3 girls.
Can we call them Rusty’s Angels?
Ah, but what if Maddie gets better and then there’s four?
“What if”?! Hush! You mean “WHEN Maddie gets better”. There is no “what if” – Maddie will get better! Think happy thoughts!!
I meant in time to fight on this level.
EVERYONE gets better in this comic. Cameo characters get better. (And we loves it, we do.)
I count four
There were 4, actually more than 4 angels. Kate, Farrah, and Jacklyn. With Cheryl and Tanya joining later as the cast chaged over time. And do you expect stabs to leave her bar unattended after all the trouble she went through getting the money to buy the hook?
Are u counting Stabs? I wouldn’t consider her.
Elves and humans can be sexy, but not halfings?
Not at all, we’re not anti-halfling bigots here. (Sam’s girlfriend in LotR would definitely rate as a halfling-hottie, for example.) I think it’s more that Stabs was never a “Featured partner” for any of the levels, more of a guest star or cameo appearance
OTOH, Stabs was clearly adventuring with them the level they forgot about her.
I hope they don’t bring the Princess along. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great character, but if she comes along the bad guys have -no prayer-, and there’s no drama in that! A-heh. A-heh a-heh.
Second comment; this is the real, hidden benefit of being Good-aligned rather than what is euphemistically called “Chaotic Neutral” – a Good-aligned party makes enough friends along the way that when they themselves end up in big trouble, they can call for help and help will come. Not that I’m saying Cube or Mimic are necessarily Good-aligned; this is more of a general rule.
So a paladin and a rust monster stagger into a bar…
Too soon?
So a paladin and a rust monster stagger into a bar…
The bartender asks, “The usual”?
The paladin nods.
The bartender says,”Here ya go…one Corpse Reviver and an Iron Cactus.”
I feel a little slow for how long it took me to understand why Stabs is upset in panel 5. Who the heck knocks on the door of a bar instead of just coming inside? A guy with no hands, apparently.
I thought that was aimed at Roxy and Prestige. They just said she wouldn’t get any walk-ins, and Stabs thought to prove them wrong.
A rust monster with sense and judgment enough to not just eat the locks.
Stabs is annoyed that they expect -HER- to get the door.
Why would that annoy her? It’s *her* bar – in what bar would the *patrons* be expected to get the door?
Because it is Stabs. In HER bar, YOU get the door!
That would explain the lack of customers.
The patrons are expected to get the door in pretty much every bar ever. But yeah, not in the “answering the door” sense.
Well it sure ain’t a barbarian!